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19 years ago

Erase Flash through Avalon_CFI w/o NIOS!

Hi all. I was wondering if its possible to issue a chip erase command (or writes for that matter) through a state-machine driven custom Avalon Switched Fabric Master Bus? I have a microc...
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19 years ago

For the record, it is very much possible. If one does this, you just need to pay very close attention to endian of your devices as well as going between master and slaves of different data widths. The SOPC builder likes to play with your address values which reaks havok when you're trying to send write commands to specific Flash addresses.

Kevin